Arete

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Arete, Areté or Areté may refer to:

Abstract notions

• Arete (moral virtue) (Greek: Ἀρετή), a term meaning "virtue" or "excellence"
• A synonym for enlightenment in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension

Names of persons, fictional or real

• Queen Arete (mythology), a character in Homer's Odyssey
• Arete of Cyrene, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher
• Arete, daughter of Dionysius the Elder and wife of Dion (tyrant of Syracuse)
• Princess Arete, a 2001 animated Japanese film and its title character

Names of objects or animals

• 197 Arete, an asteroid
• Arete (shrimp), a genus of snapping shrimps in family Alpheidae

Geography

• Arête, a thin ridge of rock formed by glaciers

Art

• Areté, an arts magazine

Placenames normally transliterated Areti

• Areti, Cyclades, a village on the island of Milos, Cyclades
• Areti, Elis, a village in Elis
• Areti, Ioannina, a village in the Ioannina regional unit
• Areti, Thessaloniki, a village in the Thessaloniki regional unit

See also

• Aretes (Greek: Ἀρέτης), Macedonian General